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FOLLOW THESE STEPS TO GET STARTED:
Choose your Username. For the privacy and safety of you and/or your sailor, NO LAST NAMES ARE ALLOWED, even if your last name differs from that of your sailor (please make sure your URL address does not include your last name either). Also, please do not include your email address in your user name. Go to "Settings" above to set your Username. While there, complete your Profile so you can post and share photos and videos of your Sailor and share stories with other moms!
Make sure to read our Community Guidelines and this Navy Operations Security (OPSEC) checklist - loose lips sink ships!
Join groups! Browse for groups for your PIR date, your sailor's occupational specialty, "A" school, assigned ship, homeport city, your own city or state, and a myriad of other interests. Jump in and introduce yourself! Start making friends that can last a lifetime.
Link to Navy Speak - Navy Terms & Acronyms: Navy Speak
All Hands Magazine's full length documentary "Making a Sailor": This video follows four recruits through Boot Camp in the spring of 2018 who were assigned to DIV 229, an integrated division, which had PIR on 05/25/2018.
Boot Camp: Making a Sailor (Full Length Documentary - 2018)
Boot Camp: Behind the Scenes at RTC
...and visit Navy.com - America's Navy and Navy.mil also Navy Live - The Official Blog of the Navy to learn more.
OPSEC - Navy Operations Security
Always keep Navy Operations Security in mind. In the Navy, it's essential to remember that "loose lips sink ships." OPSEC is everyone's responsibility.
DON'T post critical information including future destinations or ports of call; future operations, exercises or missions; deployment or homecoming dates.
DO be smart, use your head, always think OPSEC when using texts, email, phone, and social media, and watch this video: "Importance of Navy OPSEC."
Follow this link for OPSEC Guidelines:
Events
**UPDATE as of 11/10/2022 PIR vaccination is no longer required.
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Please note! Changes to this guide happened in October 2017. Tickets are now issued for all guests, and all guests must have a ticket to enter base. A separate parking pass is no longer needed to drive on to base for parking.
Please see changes to attending PIR in the PAGES column. The PAGES are located under the member icons on the right side.
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ALUMNI OF PIR 08/02/2013 TG 38 - 12 Divisions (277-286, 817 and 938)
Information
Welcome to the group with SAILORS who graduated Boot Camp on 8/02/2013. A place to keep up with each other as your sailors continue their journey in the Navy.
Location: Great Lakes, OL
Members: 99
Latest Activity: Nov 17, 2013
WELCOME to PIR 08/02/2013! PLEASE See the PAGES section for Informational Posts about BC and PIR. PAGES is underneath the Members Photos. PLEASE scroll down this page here to find the Comment Box to post a reply to the PIR GROUP.
~OPSEC OPerational SECurity, is always of the utmost importance.
~N4M’s also has Community Guidelines just like any other social media.
~Please take the time to read the OPSEC and N4M’s Community Guidelines.
~A quick note here, from the N4M’s CG’s:
• Don’t Jeopardize the Safety of Our Sailors: Remember OPSEC (Operational Security) (Don’t Sink Ships With Loose Lips) This site and all content posted on it are viewable to everyone on the Internet. This doesn’t mean you can’t share things about your Sailor – but too many details can put Sailors in harm’s way. The following are examples of red flags and should not be shared within this community either by posting or sending via a Group message:
• Sailors’ last names. This includes your username if you share the same last name as your son or daughter.
Some Suggestions:
~If your last name is different from your Recruits it is still not recommended for you to use in your username for your own personal security. This is your option. It is also not a good idea to use an email address as your username for personal security reasons.
~First Names and pictures of your Recruit are allowed but remember, everyone can see it and someone can easily match them up with their "mom". So you might want to consider changing your profile picture to not include your Recruit at least for the duration of BC. Again, your option
~It is also a good idea to make your settings for your Profile Page "viewable only to your friends".
Comment Wall
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Comment by tabu1218 on July 4, 2013 at 5:21pm
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Gumby_ship, I can take a name or two! My email is tabu1218@gmail.com
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Comment by seabeegirlfriend on July 4, 2013 at 5:18pm
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So I have some names of a couple of Ladies that could use some mail, if you think you would be able to send them a card or a letter, then please let me know and I will give you the names :)
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Comment by CatMom509 on July 4, 2013 at 3:50pm
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Happy 4th of July everyone!!
"You, O Lord, keep my lamp burning;
my God turns my darkness into light."
Psalm 18:28
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Comment by ellen0502 on July 4, 2013 at 1:55pm
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Good afternoon! Sorry I haven't been on much, I have been spending time with my son who has been home on leave. He is only home for a few more days before he is off to Japan for four years.
Ellen, I don't have any suggestions on brand of watch, but I do recommend waterproof (of course), and black or silver in color. While any sailor can wear a gold watch, many won't want to and don't due to the fact that gold is generally for officers only.
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Comment by Kimmy (Ship 13 DIV 282) on July 4, 2013 at 10:05am
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Bradford Exchange has a pretty Navy watch.
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Comment by Ellen65 on July 4, 2013 at 9:48am
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Good morning all and happy Independence Day! I was reading the doc here with ideas for PIR / graduation gifts and I think a watch will be a great gift for my son. I've been browsing around the Internet for one but want to make sure I get a good one thats usable. He's going in as a FN so we don't know what he'll be doing yet or where. Any suggestions? Makers and models. I would really appreciate any direction if anyone has any suggestions. Thanks!
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Comment by Jetskimom on July 4, 2013 at 9:48am
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Happy July 4th!!!! We are getting so close to seeing our wonderful sons and daughters!! I am so proud of all our SR's!!!
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Comment by Lala Ribbon Queen PIR Ribbons on July 4, 2013 at 8:44am
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Good Morning Navy Family, I wanted to wish you all a Safe and Happy 4th of July. I hope you all get great calls or letters from your recruits very soon. I know you all are super excited to see them. :) Please tell them that this Navy Mom truly appreciates them for deciding to serve our great country and protect our freedoms. I also want to thank all of you for raising such fine young men and women and for all you do to be supportive to your own recruits/sailors and for supporting all of ours as well. Bravo Zulu to all of you!!!! And Happy 4th of July!!!
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Comment by JoeR's Mom (Ship 04 Div 283) on July 4, 2013 at 8:40am
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Happy 4th of July everyone!
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Comment by diannep on July 4, 2013 at 8:33am
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Good Morning and Happy July 4th!
Pages (6)
- N4M’s Community Guidelines and OPSEC
- SHIP/DIVISIONS ~~ What are they and how do they fill them?
- RTC Website and RTC Family Guide links
- Calls from your SR
- What ARE They Doing in Boot Camp? Synopsis, Videos and a Day-by-Day account (up to Week #6) from a Sailor. PLUS-Boot Camp for Dummies!
- LIVESTREAMING OF PIR SERVICE ON INTERNET
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